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Gah. It’s been quite a while since I’ve needed to install Windows on a stand-alone set-up. I’d forgotten how much stuff I find is needed to actually make the thing frikkin useful.
As this blog doubles up for my memory pad, here’s the list of stuff that I’ve just installed:

Firefox
Thunderbird
WinSCP
PuTTY
Spybot
Avast
OpenOffice
Pidgin
XChat (silverx’s)
The MS PowerToys
Flash Player
AIR
Acrobat Reader
GVim
GIMP
iTunes
VLC

SP3 (given [...]

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